Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Prince - One Night Alone tour 2002

The One Nite Alone world tour started off in the US. He played small 2,700 - 3,600 seats theaters. The first legs were 9 shows. Then followed a 20 day break followed by another 17 shows until the end of April.

During this second leg many shows were announced and rescheduled or completely cancelled. The tour was announced during an NPGMC chat. The shows had the opportunity for NPGMC members to watch the soundcheck, where Prince was very loose and talked quite often to the fans. Some were even allowed on stage and sing or play guitar.

At the end of May a 10 date Canadian leg followed. After the Canadian leg followed the Xenophobia Celebration and in early September the first dates of the European leg were confirmed. Many dates floated round on the internet, but many proved to be false. Surprisingly this tour had a date in Milan, Italy.

Prince hasn’t been in Italy since the financial problems from his 1990 Nude Tour. During the tour 3 more dates were added. The first was another show at the Ahoy, later followed by 2 Late Night Shows (after the main show) in Paris, Le Bataclan and Rotterdam, Night town. The last one was the end of the European tour. There was much commotion around these 2 extra, Late Night Shows.

NPGMC members complained that it was basically an aftershow (what the setlist proved) and the should be allowed access to aftershow for free, where the member has to pay. Ticket for these 2 shows were $100 each, which added extra oil to the fuel. Despite this, all tickets were sold.